Improvement in spinning-ring holders



J. W. WATTLES. Spinning-Ring Holder.

No. 206,155. Patented July I6, 1878.;

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JOSEPH \V. \VATTLES, 0F CANTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT lN SPINNING-RING HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 206,155, dated July 16,1878; application filed November 27, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OSEPH W. WAr'rLEs, of Canton, of the county ofNorfolk and State of Massachusetts, have made a new and useful inventionhaving reference to Spinning- Bin g Holders; and do hereby declare thesame to be described in the following specification and represented inthe accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a top view, and Fig. 2a transverse section, of a duplex race-rin g and its rail provided withmy invention. Fig. 3 is a top view, and Fig. 4 a transverse section, ofa single race-ring and its rail provided with such invention.

In such drawings, each spinning-frame ring is shown as having aneccentric-flange to cooperate with an abutment and a clamp-screw inholding the ring in concentricity with the spindle.

When the spinning-frame is specially constructed for such appliances,the abutment is to be fixed to or project upward directly from the topof the rail, the screw being screwed into the rail and against the shankof the ring, extending within a socket or round hole made in the rail,and having a diameter somewhat larger than the neck or shank of thering, and a little less than that of the eccentric-flange. \Vhen,however, the spinning-frame has not been specially constructed for suchappliances, but has to its ring-rails circular ring holes or passageslarger in diameter than the eccentric-flange of the ring, there may beemployed within each of such holes, and around the shank of the ring, aflanged shank or annulus, which, as represented, is shown as having theabutment fixed to and projecting up from it. It also has a holetransversely in it, for the passage of the clamp-screw to the ring orits shank, such screw being screwed into the rail.

1 would remark that although I have shown the abutment as projecting upfrom the flanged annulus on which the eccentric-flange of the ringrests, such abutment, instead of being so arranged, may extend updirectly from the rail, and, if advisable, project or overlap more orless the top of the flanged annulus. I prefer, however, to have theabutment extend up from the said flanged annulus.

The combination of the said ring-supportin g annulus with the rail, thespinning-frame ring and its eccentric-flan go, and the abutment andclamp-screw constitutes the main principle or part of my presentinvention.

In the drawings, A denotes the spinningframe ring, B the ring-rail, and0 the ringopening thereof.

The ring is shown in Fig. 2 as having two races, 0 and c, to its shank12, while in Fig. 4 it is represented as provided with but one race, 0.

The ring A has to its shank an eccentricflange, to, its diameter beinglarger than that of the race, and its periphery, though cylindrical, orabout so, is eccentric with reference to the race.

Within the opening 0, and encompassing the shank of the ring A, is thesustaining-annulus E, which has a flange, f, projecting from it, andresting upon the top of the rail. The eccentric-flange of the ring bearsdirectly upon the top of the annulus E, from which the abutment 0extends upward, in manner as shown.

The hole for the passage of the clamp-screw D is represented at g asmade in the annulus E. This clamp-screw, screwed into the rail, extendsthrough the said hole and abuts against the ring A, and, when set up,not only forces therin g against the abutment, but causes the ring, bymeans of such abutment, to crowd the annulus E hard against one side ofthe rail'opening 0. Thus, by having the abutment fixed to the annulus,the latter, through the action of the screw and the abutment, is causedto be clamped to the hole 0. When, however, the abutment is fastened tothe rail and projects up over the annulus in manner as shown in Fig. 5,such annulus E simply rests on the rail without, when the screw is setup, being forced against the side of the opening 0.

Should the ring require to be adjusted into concentricity with thespindle, a centralizeris to be placed on the latter and dropped withinthe ring, which by it will be brought concentric with the spindle. Next,the ring should be turned around until it may bear against the abutment,after which the screw should be set up closely against the ring, so as,with the abutment, to hold the ring firmly in place.

I do not herein claim the combination of a spinning-frame ring: and itsrail with an cecentric-flange applied to the ring, and with an abutmentand elampserew applied tothe rail, such being; the subject of anapplieation for a patent recently made by me.

\Vbat I claim as of my present invention is as follows:

1. In combination with the ring-rail B and the clampscrew I) screwedtherein, and with the adjustable ring A. provided with theeccentric-flange a, the sustaining-annulus E, having the screw passageor hole 9, and also having the abutment 0 arranged wlth it, and thescrew 1) and the flange a, substantially as specified.

JOSEPH Vt. WATTLES.

\l'itnesses:

R. ll. EDDY, Jon): 1%. hxow.

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